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That sewer ultimately connects to the Hyperion Treatment Plant in El Segundo, where the waste gets “full-secondary” treatment, to make it safe to release via an outfall pipe about five miles offshore.

Hyperion — the largest wastewater treatment facility west of the Rockies — sprawls across 200 acres of oceanfront Los Angeles and sits just outside the city limits of El Segundo.

She pointed out that the existing infrastructure at the Hyperion plant has a history of failures and sewage spills.

The Hyperion facility serves more than 4 million people in L.A.,

Coming not long after Universal had acquired Hyperion, as well as a significant stake in the parent company of Harmonia Mundi, the news felt grim.